Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Rap Captures Voices of Dissent in Kashmir
Read more: Rap Captures Voices of Dissent in KashmirZubair Magray, who goes by the stage name Haze Kay, raps about the conflict in Indian-administered Kashmir. The 23-year-old, one of the first rappers to emerge from the valley, blames the Indian military for “ruining” his homeland. In his two-storey…
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Music’s influential role on Egypt’s presidential campaign
Read more: Music’s influential role on Egypt’s presidential campaignWhen the revolution began in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, music played a big role in galvanizing young people and giving them a voice. So it’s not surprising that music continues to play an important role in Egyptian politics as the presidential…
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Rally of White Power Clowns Drowned Out By Bunch of Awesome Actual Clowns
Read more: Rally of White Power Clowns Drowned Out By Bunch of Awesome Actual ClownsApparently the human colostomy bags known as the neo-Nazis and the KKK held an anti-immigration rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday, but their demonstration was totally taken over by hordes of super-happy clowns. Instead of shouting, the clown protesters…
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Is A Barbie Body Possible?
Read more: Is A Barbie Body Possible?With her long slender limbs, small waist and ‘flawless complexion’ (at least when she has makeup on), it is no surprise that many young girls dream of being just like Barbie. However, it turns out that attaining Barbie’s dream bod…
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Creative Activism in the Service of Corporations
Read more: Creative Activism in the Service of CorporationsMcDonald’s wanted children in Hong Kong to spend more time with their imagination after a study showed that children spend an average of 5 hours studying per day. In its new ‘I’m Amazing’ campaign, the fast food chain challenges these…
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Nude Protests and Political Contradictions
Read more: Nude Protests and Political ContradictionsLast month Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself as a protest; she is now under death threat. In her defense, the Ukrainian group Femen [13] staged a global “topless jihad” [14] on…
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Feminism Gets Rebranded
Read more: Feminism Gets RebrandedFor the November issue of women’s magazine ELLE UK, agency W+K London teamed up with feminist cofounders of Vagenda, Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, to rebrand feminism. Frustrated with the way women are stereotyped and portrayed, Vagenda created a…
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Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over Time
Read more: Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over TimeTo show the harmful effects of cocaine on a drug addict, Brazilian advertising agency Talent created ‘living’ poster ads that are consumed by live mealworms over time. Printed on dough, the ads initially show the faces of drug addicts. However,…
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The Timothy Convention
Read more: The Timothy ConventionTimCon28 was a scavenger hunt that infiltrated the historic Waldorf-Astoria hotel in midtown Manhattan. Under the guise of attending the “Timothy Convention”, forty people explored back passages and service areas, interacted with unsuspecting hotel guests, infiltrated official hotel events like…
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A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March
Read more: A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a MarchThere were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on Sunday. There was, instead, a corpulent poet, whose admirers thrust lilac boughs at him. A bespectacled detective…
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Center Portion
Read more: Center PortionSpace to Play by Rick Kogan Performance spaces come in all shapes and sizes and purposes, from the shabby basement blues bar to, well, the Auditorium Theater. This is a city that, in spite of shortsighted politicians and greedy developers,…
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Identity/Identidad
Read more: Identity/IdentidadIdentity/Identidad was included in The Disappeared exhibition at the El Museo Del Barrio from February 23rd to June 17th 2007. However, this project was exhibited over a long period of time at numerous different locations. The project consisted of a…